The ROBLOX player stuck in a cult

YES, THIS IS A WEB-SERIES. It was filmed from 2021 to 2023, and didn't actually take place in 2009. I thought I made it clear enough, sorry. (⚠ click read more for corrections and additional theories, potential spoilers ahead ⚠) ☆ 1) Thinking about it now, I shouldn't have glossed over the "SpawnLocation" symbol being plastered around the house. Especially with the sentences talking about a "next life" at the latest points in the series, the symbol's "respawn" meaning comes into play. As well, when Brandon's NPC is pushed off the tower in the "Chair Brick Battle" video and a new NPC (with the same random movement scripts as Goods, by the way) appears in a different area, this is almost gauranteed to be symbolic of Brandon's death and "respawn, of sorts" in the next life. Also, I received a comment from someone named "chucking reaper" which is very informative, and reads: "I think “King soon,” is relevant to “Raising,” shtick we heard of. Brandon was making a castle that he constantly kept reworking and cleaning. As others have mentioned, raising may have something to do with a ritual that results in a higher form of reincarnation/ascendance. Kinda like how some believe karma in this life goes over into the next. Perhaps Brandon thought that the more he kept “raising,” the better his chances were of becoming a higher power/level. I’m sure with all the religious imagery he might’ve seen, he would’ve considered the next stage to power being a king. King Solomon, King Saul, King David, etc… Brandon might’ve been coerced into thinking he would become a king after the downing once he died." ☆ 2) I forgot to mention, but it's unknown what the website URL that Brandon linked at the end is. It's fully blurred out in the videos. The light bins are also most likely connected to the disappearing limbs in NPCs. This theory was in the script but left out by mistake. ☆ 3) At about 28:33, I call Ozolog "Brandon" by accident, and "please forgive me" is actually in the safe chat. Why did Roblox even put that in the safe-chat options

The "FUCK" at the end, you can just tell how mentally destroyed he is after realizing what happened

Another sad thing about this ARG is the fact that Roblox was probably the only place for Brandon to make friends and interact with other people outside of his abusive family

THANK GOD this is just an arg and not an actual teenager getting traumatized this arg hits straight into the heart

it's incredibly depressing how the first thing ozolog tries to do with the brandon NPC is to express how real bradons death upsets him only for it to be revealed that there's only generic replies,he was searching for some conformation that brandon knew that in some miniscule way what was happening to him was wrong as he prepared for his death

It’s surreal to see Ozolog’s change throughout the videos. He goes from a kid who doesn’t notice anything wrong to someone who develops narcissistic traits and tries to dig deep in Brandon’s situation.

Some cults have hierarchies based on loyalty and levels of indoctrination so each "raise" would mean rising through those ranks. This would also explain why he says he "got to the high level for next life with the last raise" meaning this is what the cult promises, it's a suicide cult where you are promised a better life afterwards depending on how loyal you are.

The fact that this was fake is absolutely mind-boggling to me. I went into this video blind, and i didn't even know it was fake until i looked at the comments after i finished watching the video. Just insane.

My interpretation of the story: So Brandon’s father joined a christian suicide cult, and bought ‘light bins’ and the green blocks to ‘purify’ the house, and also made Brandon join the religion, which does explain the VeggieTales. His father was brainwashed into believing something terrifying, (probably through the DVDs he was told to play on the TV at all times), he punished his son severely if he actually did or did things that could have broke the ‘rules’ (the rules listed on the wall), like touching the remote, which could have turned off the TV breaking one of the ‘rules’. As time went on, Brandon’s mother left, unable to bear the father’s beliefs. As the day they were meant to kill themselves neared, Brandon was isolated from the world, Roblox his only outlet for socializing. He then disappeared, and years later reunited with his friends, most likely to say hello one last time, remembering the times they spent together. He then went to construct a giant castle, a fantasy of what Heaven is like, where he will be with the angels or as he calls them the ‘goods’. He then kills himself, along with his father, not knowing the full extent of what he has done, due to his age. It is a story of child abuse, doomsday cults, and the vulnerability of the young, all with a fucking Lego game. Bravo

One thing that really sticks out to me is that Ozolog's final message of realisation and grief is a cuss word. Something that brandon has been showed to never allow people to say. It is also something that wouldn't have been in Ozolog's vocabulary when they used to play with brandon all the time. A tragic reminder of how far brandon and ozo have grown apart..

One of the best aspects of Brandon Works is how realistically grounded it all is. There's no otherworldly beings, no sentient world-ending parasite, or killer animatronics. Just a story about a guy and how he tries to find out just what has happened to his online friend.

What honestly stuck with me in this ARG wasn't even the cult Brandon was a part of but more the descent Ozo goes through. In the videos just before the end, I couldn't help but think to myself "you poor child" with how possessive and obviously paranoid Ozo had become at that point, likely to the overall detriment of his life. And to have this likely years long obsession all be for nothing too was surprisingly emotional.

This is maybe one of the most devastating story of child abuse I have ever seen. It's so scaringly similar to what happens in real life and how young children might not fully understand the consequences of doing such simple things such as touching a TV remote. When Brandons NPC continuously states "sundowning," It means being in a state of confusion in the late afternoon and lasting into Night (stated from Google.) This could mean that he's contemplating his decision to live because of the tremendous trauma his father has been putting him through, Or why his father is punishing him for doing simple things. It is very likely that Brandons father was in some kind of manipulating Christian "Cult" because of the countdowns that happen throuought the "My House" versions, Hence the lightboxes, green buttons, and amounts of crosses in each of the rooms. Brandons mother has possibly had enough of Brandons father and divorced His father, leaving Brandon with his father. On Version 5, Brandons father is still near the tv, but near the tv is a model of a shotgun, this was when Brandons mom was still in the kitchen cooking. Ozo was possibly towards the age of 12-16 when investigating these games, because he didn't take the weapons seriously and just thought Brandon put the weapons in the game for fun. Throuought the years, Ozo still makes videos about Brandons updates in his House game And begins to develop a strange habit of taking everything as a clue. I have a theory that the reason why Brandon hasn't been online for so long is because his father MAY have found out about Roblox not being religious, and punishing him to a point where he stopped being online for a while. On the final game where Brandons NPC and Ozo's character are dressed in black, Ozo sees the website and I imagine the pure horror reading through it because it might have been one of those dark web videos of people unaliving themself, or the official Cult website. As he reads through the website, he slowly realizes how every piece of the games Brandon has been making was eventually being put together, solving the puzzle. When Ozo was reading the dialog, he finds out that Brandon committed. He uses the chat box to express how he feels, in anger (or guilt) he spells out "FUCK." In the chat box. This ARG was beautifully written and tells a powerful story about child abuse. May their life soon be easy for them.

This series reminded me of one of my old online friends I knew as a young child. It was around ten years ago, and we met through Animal Crossing New Leaf. We played all the time together and became extremely close. Eventually she told me she was having issues with her current living situation. Apparently her father was in prison and her mother was on her deathbed due to cancer. At some point she was adopted by her aunt, and everything was going well. However, one day she went offline for the last time. I had no idea why. Everything seemed to be going fine in her life, yet she just went missing. I spent hours trying to figure out what could have happened, with no success. One day, around a year after she had gone offline, suddenly I saw her come online again on my 3DS friends list. However, her Mii and name were quickly changed to be completely different. It turned into what appeared to be a young boy. He only played Mario Kart 7, until eventually even he went offline for the last time. I've had a lot of time to think about what happened. My best guess was her 3DS was either lost or sold to a used game store, and the young boy who replaced her got her 3DS. I still sometimes wonder what happened to her. It honestly really hurt seeing someone who I was such close friends with completely disappear like that. I believe it was the main cause of my depression, which I'm still battling to this day. Layla, if somehow you've ended up here and you're reading this for some reason, I hope you're doing well.

this is quite possibly one of the most disturbing depictions of child abuse i've seen. because its pretty close to how it is in real life. its very easy to overlook signs of child abuse and just pass it off while truly terrible things are happening just beneath the surface. I thankfully have amazing parents but i feel so bad for all the children around the world who dont even have their home as a safe space.

I think the "castle", is like a community home. Cults tend to all live together under one roof, making it easier to access one another and give them that feeling of all being one. All the money goes to the one person who handles it, and they all basically take care of eachother in a way. I guess the party room is also something that is actually in the house. Having things like a big castle, party rooms and bars, it's in a way love bombing to get people to become more and more comfortable with the cult, while also making them become reliant on it without even realizing.

I always find myself bouncing between rewatching this coverage of the ARG and videos on the channel itself because it's just so...realistic. It puts into perspective how much we really don't know about some of the people we know online, especially when you're younger. You don't know what the situation is at home for others.

it's horrifying what cults like these can do to a man, not to mention a child

The end genuinely broke me. Just knowing about what happened to Brandon makes my stomach feel a certain way.

man the ending of this broke me, everything about it seems so.... real, like its something that could've totally happened in real life and seeing that last little message brandon left for ozolog just gave me such a strong feeling of "its over, im gone and there's nothing you can do now" that honestly made me cry, even though im well aware that this is just a web-series, props to the creator for making such a grounded and credible story